Westwood Studios was created in
October 1985 by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in Las Vegas.
Since then the team has grown in size and, as well as creating
the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre of game, they have produced
some of the best games ever. Their games list includes the
Dune Series of games, the Kyrandia trilogy, Nox, Earth and
Beyond and, of course, the Command & Conquer series of
games.

In 1999 when Electronic Arts
purchased Westwood Studios and VIE Pacific from Virgin
Interactive, VIE Pacific became Westwood Pacific. Westwood
Pacific produced NOX, Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge. At the
start of 2002 Westwood Pacific split from Westwood Studios and
became EA Pacific, and also announced C&C Generals.

In January 2003 Electronic
Arts announced that they were merging EA Pacific, EA LA and
Westwood Studios into a huge new development studio in Los
Angeles. In effect this was closing the studio and moving some
of the staff to the new studio. That's a huge step from two
friends working in a garage in Las Vegas.